Alexander MacDonald (1908 – May 26, 2000) was an American journalist and intelligence officer, and co-founder and first editor of the

Bangkok Post The ''Bangkok Post'' is an English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is published in broadsheet and digital formats. The first issue was sold on 1 August 1946. It had four pages and cost one baht, a considerable amount ...

Early life and education

MacDonald was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1908. He graduated from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

with a degree in journalism.

Career

Lynn spent a decade reporting for newspaper in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Hawaii. Following the

Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Territory of ...

in 1941, he joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He went on to command an OSS unit in the Burmese rainforest at the end of the war, broadcasting allied news into Japanese-occupied Thailand. After the war, he remained in Thailand to co-found the Bangkok Post in 1945, recruiting Thais who had served with him in Burma and Japanese from a detention camp.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Alexander American expatriate journalists Boston University alumni American emigrants to Thailand 1908 births 2000 deaths